At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.